Imagine if LEGO was interested to which pieces we would like to see in the next Castle accessory pack. They are I am gathering information for the LEGO Community Team which will be passed along to designers inside the company. Of course our choices may not be picked and an accessory pack may not be made any time soon, but we should let them know what we want.

I have a few basic guidelines.
1. Packs in the past have ranges from around 30 to 36 elements. Do not use more than 36 elements in your pack.
2. You may choose castle pieces that are not being produced now such as the forestmen cap, pitchfork, target, old round shield, old abs sword but keep in mind that some of these cases (the pitchfork) supposedly LEGO does not have a working mold to that element.
3. Do not mix themes. If you want a Viking accessory pack or a Ninja accessory pack, make it all Viking or all Ninja and list that below.
4. Try not to pick "one time use" accessories such as majisto's hat, willa's wand, or the Royal Knight's crown. These are great pieces but you do not need an army of majistos/merlins 5. You are encouraged to use old accessories in colors that they have not been made in. A few examples would be a brown sword for training, an orange plume, a green barding, a brown goblet, and a tan beard.
6. Animals are allowed. So if you want a tan or brown horse, saddles, or bardings you may add these.
7. Food is also allowed in small quanitites. Turkey!
8. Which weapons and soldier helmets do you have too many of and which are you always missing? Can you always find a crossbow but never a regular bow? Do you have tons of black flared helmets but hardly any grey helmets?
9. Do not forget civilians. Forestmen caps, cowls, Star Wars cowls, maiden hats, and hair are very useful, especially if they were in new colors.
10. Do not use 36 different elements. Most past packs used 15-20 elements with duplicates of weapons and helmets. This is probably how LEGO would do it today.

There's my list, I believe it comes to.... *checks* 34 pieces. It covers mainly army-building equipment. And a note regarding "New Design A" and "New Design B" as listed behind the ovoid and triangular shields: I was going to put down "Slytherin" and "Gryffindor", but I figured that their might be copyright issues.

And I'd just as soon not have an old theme.... TLC can make us a new theme in the classic style right here. Just provide us with two sets of matching shields and we'll do the rest. No need for storylines, no need to sell it to the kids, just keep us happy.

2 of these in dark gray and 2 in light gray: 4 helms to match - the helmet parts 2 in dark gray and 2 in light, the visors could be in grays or black, a variety of plume colors: Old swords - 2 in dark gray, 2 in light gray, 2 in black: Star Wars hoods - 2 in brown, 2 in dark gray 1 turkey, 2 red apples, 2 green apples I would love to get daggers in other colors - say 2 in either light or dark gray: Perhaps four triangular shields with classic prints (e.g. 1 wolfpack, 1 black falcon, 1 lion, 1 forestman): 2 bows in black and 2 in brown: 2 beards in brown and 2 in black: 1 pitchfork in brown

That's probably about 36, depending on how they count the helm/visor combinations and the parts of the turkey.

What I would not want:
--armors in silly jelly-bean colors and prints
--KKII helms
--silly big swords (either the new KKII design or the chrome great sword)
--lances - man, I've got tons and tons of lances

I was trying to be realistic but also make something that would be a great army builder.

I know this is not exactly on topic, but I would also love to see a big food variety pack, with the various goblets, plates, turkey, sausages, breads, rolls, apple, etc. That should be a good seller across themes.

2 x ovoid shield light bley 1 with yellow, green red dragon (dragon masters) 1 with either BF or lion knights ( a reloaded version ) or skip the DM and have one of BF and one of lion knights.

1 x classic sword black

3 x classic sword dk bley

2 x conical flared helm with nasal dk bley

2 x conical helm with chinstrap dk bley

2 x bow and arrow reddish brown

2 x quiver reddish brown

2 x axe (the fireman kind...or a new scaled bearded kind in dk bley)

pitch fork, beards, hoods (the peasant kind with liripipe) and all the rest of the best ideas that keep coming up....

Bruce N H wrote

What I would not want: --armors in silly jelly-bean colors and prints --KKII helms --silly big swords (either the new KKII design or the chrome great sword) --lances - man, I've got tons and tons of lances

I second that motion!

A separate horse pack would be nice, like they used to have. One with bardings would be cool, but probably not practical.

What would be even better it to offer sets that are even more specialized. A plume wheel set with 12 different colors $3. A dragon one the same. A slash weapon set with sword, broad sword, scimitar, cutlass, samurai sword and knife in gray, black, silver, bronze, gold (30 parts $5). A polearm set with spear, axe, halbered, five blade spear, axe head (viking), bar with stop in, bronze, silver, black, gray, gold (30 parts $5). And so on with shields (5 different shapes) and helmets/armor (10 different shapes). A flag pack with two of fifteen different colors for $3. A food pack, a peasnt pack, a woman/princess pack, an archery pack, a forest animal pack, and any other pack that might sell well should be made. As long as the prices stay low people will buy them up.

There is someone who is always worse off than you . . . consider my peasants for example.

Personally, I hope that a new excessory pack gives us classic elements in new and useful colours (pearl grey being my favorite at this time). I'm not keen on bley, as I don't feel it mixes well with my current collection, however I do like dark red and pearl grey alot.

A parts pack needs a wide assortment of bricks, however they need to be useful to both new and old collectors. Old elements with a fresh colour-set would be a great addition for collectors both old and young.